Re: [manrs-community] What are the dangers of next-hop hijacking?

On 1/7/23 4:33 PM, Brandon Zhi wrote:

Hi guys,

I've been doing some research on BGP security recently and I've discovered a hijacking method called BGP next-hop hijacking. But I don't know how this will cause harm, as modifying the next-hop only redirects traffic.

Are there any actual cases of such hijacking parties?

hi, you can find an in-depth analysis on the topic here: http://clathomasprime.github.io/papers/NextHopBGP.pdf work by Clay Thomas and Gavriel Hirsch from princeton -- antonio